LONGEST SPAN FOR KARIM BENZEMA
Karim Benzema: scorer with longest span in UCL
Karim Benzema, after scoring a brace for Real Madrid in the round-16 game against Liverpool (5-2), set new record for the most time spanning goals of the same player in the Champions League.
17 years 77 days, so much time has passed since the day (6 December 2005) when he scored in the competition for the first time (for Lyon against Rosenborg).
Benzema surpassed the former record of Ryan Giggs who spanned his goals over exactly 17 years (his first goal for Manchester United came on 14 September 1994, vs Göteborg, and the last on 14 September 2011, vs Benfica).
In the table below, active players are taken in bold.
| GOAL-SCORERS WITH | LONGEST | SPAN IN | CHAMPIONS | LEAGUE | |
| Player | Country | Span (Y-D) | First goal | Last goal | |
| 1 | Karim Benzema | France | 17-077 | 06/12/2005 | 21/02/2023 |
| 2 | Ryan Giggs | Wales | 17-000 | 14/09/1994 | 14/09/2011 |
| 3 | Lionel Messi | Argentina | 16-357 | 02/11/2005 | 25/10/2022 |
| 4 | Arjen Robben | Netherlands | 16-028 | 30/10/2002 | 27/11/2018 |
| 5 | Raúl | Spain | 15-177 | 18/10/1995 | 13/04/2011 |
| 6 | Sergio Ramos | Spain | 15-100 | 06/12/2005 | 16/03/2021 |
| 7 | Christian Panucci | Italy | 14-339 | 01/12/1993 | 04/11/2008 |
| 8 | Andriy Shevchenko | Ukraine | 14-332 | 07/12/1994 | 04/11/2009 |
| 9 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | 14-227 | 10/04/2007 | 23/11/2021 |
| 10 | Daniele De Rossi | Italy | 14-159 | 28/09/2004 | 06/03/2019 |
| 11 | Jefferson Farfán | Peru | 14-017 | 20/10/2004 | 06/11/2018 |